Sharon High School - Mirror Yearbook (Sharon, PA)

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HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT The Department of Home Economics includes at the present time just two phases—cooking and sewing. It is the hope of the department that the time is not very far distant when Home Economics will be a course in itself, and will be regarded of equal value with the other courses offered in the High School curriculum. The cookery classes extend over two years with one recitation weekly. In that time the different kinds of food with their value to life, various types of cooking, discussions on meal planning, table service, and food costs are taken up. Special encouragement is given to home practice. Hygiene with direct application to cooking and cleaning is emphasized. The whole trend of the subject is tc keep alive in the girls the old-fashioned ideals of home making, combined with the present day methods and opportunities. Grace Ecci.es, Rochester Mechanics Institute, Cooking. The work done in sewing is necessarily very elementary due to the small amount of time which is available. The Eighth Grade classes first learn to make fundamental stitches, seams, and hems. The use of the sewing machine, neatness in construction of plain garments, as well as some knowledge of patterns and garment fitting comprise the remainder of this course. The Freshmen, who so elect, learn more about the use of commercial patterns, as to fitting, alteration, and laying on material. Then construction and fitting of wearing apparel is taken up. which is more complicated in design than that done by the Eighth Grade classes. Esther Weir, Ohio University, B.S., Sewing. MUSIC DEPARTMENT The Music Department includes the Band, Orchestra, and Chorus. This department helps the members of these organizations to make good use of their leisure hours, and to acquire membership in other music organizations. The rest of the school, as listeners, also gain a fuller appreciation of music through the Music Department. The Orchestra furnishes music for the assemblies, and athletic events are made more attractive and inspiring by the presence of the Band. These various departments of the Music Department are called on frequently to furnish music for different affairs in the community. David Rees, Glamorgan School of Music, Wales. LIBRARY The library is ideally located on the second floor in the front of the High School building. It houses a special collection of books, magazines, and indexes for reference work, for pleasure reading, and for outside interests. The library uses the Dewey Decimal system of classification with the card-catalog. The charging is known as the Newark system and is used frequently in school libraries. O 25 = o

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0 a 1 0 O CD • O Special Departments The standard of a school is determined not by the scholastic record it maintains alone, but it is also determined by the opportunities it gives the students for the proper physical development and for cultural education in the domestic and fine arts. Sharon High is very fortunate in having numerous special departments and capable directors. The following articles have been written by the various members of the special departments in order to present to the readers the true aims of each department. PHYSICAL EDUCATION The aim of boys’ physical education is to give the boys a general idea of the types of exercise needed to bring out those muscles which our daily life fails to exercise properly. In order to accomplish this, this department in the absence of any modern equipment has used free hand drills and different types of games. In the fall the periods begin with calesthenics, with the latter part of the period devoted to games of the active type. In the winter months the periods are given over entirely to basketball, teaching fundamentals, rules, and team play. Each class is organized into teams forming a total of over 100 teams which engage in a Round Robin tournament. During the early spring, the classes are devoted to mat work and tumbling, and later in the spring games are played. This program seems to give as near the results we wish to accomplish, as can be attained with the limited time and limited equipment. R. B. McCandless, Nebraska Wesleyan, A.B. The program of the Girls’ Physical Education Department is similar to that of the boys’. Much time is devoted to games, both of the organized and unorganized types. During the year the girls play field ball, basketball, and baseball, all of which teach self-sacrifice, courage, and fair play. Time is devoted to folk dancing, which creates a sense of rhythm, and promotes grace and litheness in the body carriage of the student. A gymnasium Activities period was established for those who wanted to participate in extra-curricular athletic events which included basketball, baseball and other gymnasium activities. Agnes M. Funn, Sargent University. HEALTH DEPARTMENT Sharon is very fortunate in having one of the finest health rooms in the state. Here routine medical inspection is carried on by Dr. H. G. Lafferty. The duties of the School Nurse are to assist the doctor in medical inspection, take care of records and the follow-up work, trying to have all the defects corrected. One grade school is visited daily where individual or class room inspections are made. The School Nurse endeavors in every way to bring about cooperation between the school and the home. Florence Math ay, Harriet Hospital Training School, R.N. 0 0 f % 0 • O $5 • O •

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O CD • O 0 © a 0 The library is visited daily by several hundred students. The average circulation is estimated to be 110 books daily. The record for this school year was reached on January 3, when 271 books were given out. Grace McClEnahan, Librarian. ART DEPARTMENT 0 The work offered by the Art Department is varied. It includes lettering, poster making, nature drawing, designing, picture study, figure drawing, and handicrafts. In working out problems, pencils, pens and ink, water colors, and cut paper are used. The class members make their books for picture study, binding the pages, dyeing the lining papers, and lettering the covers. The collection of pictures in the books includes famous examples of landscapes, portraits and figure compositions. The posters made by the Art students have ranged from small designs used in the High School building, to window cards advertising lectures and concerts. The Art Department competes in the Carnegie Safety Contest, and last year nine Sharon High students won prizes in the contest. Elizabeth Sykes, Allegheny College, A.B. 0 4 0 0 0 MECHANICAL DRAW ING DEPARTMENT The progress of the Mechanical Drawing Department is evident through the increased enrollment from 45 students last year, to 175 students this year. In 1926-27 only three periods were required, but in 1927-28 the entire seven periods were necessary to accommodate the pupils wishing to take Mechanical Drawing. The object of this department is to prepare the students for positions immediately upon graduation, so that they may follow engineering. This is accomplished through practical problems in perspective, isometric, and orthographic drawing. Great interest has been shown bv the students in making detail and assembly drawings of the complete Dodge motor, which was generously loaned to the department by the Foster Brothers. Norman Morrell, Carnegie Tech, B.S. MANUAL TRAINING DEPARTMENT According to common belief a Manual Training Department in High School exists for two reasons: to provide an opportunity for learning to make furniture, and to teach the use of woodworking tools. But there are many other aims in the mind of a Manual Training instructor. The boy must learn to be accurate, or he fails to turn out a desirable product. His work shows and develops such qualities as neatness, perseverance, and self-reliance. In short the Manual Training Department provides a meeting ground for the two factors which must be balanced in the well-rounded life, the artistic and the practical. Howard Gilmore. Genesco State Normal. 0 % k 0 • • • o (JD • 358 M onus